IPL is back

Yeh! its back again; time of excitement, enthusiasm and glamour is back again.

As you all know, there is a strong relationship in Indians and cricket. We Indians consider cricket as religion rather than just a sport and most of us treat the players of Indian team as our God. And heaven is here.When it comes to the game, Cricket is leading the way in India, and the national game Hockey miles behind.The passion among the people for the game is evident in the matches that are hosted in India.

The whirlpool of twenty20 has been already started. I guess you already know! what I am talking about? Yes! I am talking about the IPL (Indian Premier League), the heaven for cricketers. The third season of IPL already kicked off  in India on 12 March 2010 , it is going to feature 60 games and will last over a period of 45 days. This time five new venues have been added in IPL (Cuttack, Vizag, Ahemdabad, Dharmshala and Nagpur).

The IPL, is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the BCCI  Vice President Lalit Modi, sponsored by India's leading real estate developer DLF Ltd and many other companies endorsing it. It includes 8 teams or "franchise" consisting of players from different countries. This time the players were auctioned in month of January in which franchises had shown interest in them. A total number of 66 overseas players were included in the final auction list.

There are two way to earn money in this world. One is shortkut and another one is chota shortkut i.e. IPL. It makes money for those who already have huge amount of money in their pocket. And shortkut for the youngsters to show their talents; it works as a platform for the youngsters.

In my opinion, this game only favour the batsmen, they step in the field with just with one motive to hit the ball so hard that it cross the fence; So, there is no role of bowlers in this except that they have to bowl for twenty overs and just watching the ball crossing  the fences. And yes this is what fans or crowd wants, they pay money to see this only, they really enjoy this. And for making it more glamorous cheerleaders are there, they accomplish the remaining moto of the IPL. The TRP of TV channels which provide live telecast of IPL matches spikes to the sky in hrs between 3 PM to 12 midnight.  
 

 Several bollywood stars and business men have shown a tremendous interest in owing the IPL teams like SRK, Vijay Mallya, Mukesh Ambani and many more.

Shahrukh Khan's owned team Kolkata Knight Rider despite not winning any season, manages to earn maximum money (mostly through advertisement) in both earlier seasons, even though, in last season it finished last in the tally. While the Deccan Charger which was earlier expected to top the tally, finished last in first season but played final with its colleague Banglore Royal Challenger (second last in first season) in second season and managed to the scrape the season.Whereas the Rajasthan Royal which was expected to be the worst in first season, got triumph in that season and top the tally. Moving to Delhi Daredevil and Chennai Super Kings, were the teams which graduated to the semi's in both the seasons but becaz of there hardluck never got success. And last but the least Mumbai Indians not even managed to graduated to the semi's, hoping this time it will do something.

So enjoy this.......